Eurasia Press & News

KABUL (AFP) – Afghanistan’s opium production has doubled in two years, reaching a new high in 2007, with the country almost the exclusive supplier of the world’s deadliest drug, the United Nations announced Monday. Production was estimated to have jumped 34 percent this year over last with the number of …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Fighting between NATO troops and Taliban fighters killed eight soldiers — including six Westerners — and 10 militants in eastern and southern Afghanistan, where insurgent attacks are running at their highest level since the U.S. invasion, officials said Monday.French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he was adding 150 …

Iran said that it has developed a new 900-kilogram (2,000-pound) smart bomb and that it will start industrial-scale production of the bomb on Sunday.

Given the successful flight of the Iran-made Azarakhsh fighter jet, the second generation of this fighter, called Saeqeh (Thunder blot) will soon start flying across the Iranian sky, Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki voiced Tehran’s preparedness to provide facilities for foreign investors willing to conduct activity in the Iranian tourism sector.

Iran is striving to find and release Imam Musa Sadr, said a member of the directing board of the Lebanese Amal movement, who took Libyan government responsible for the abduction of Sadr in 1979.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on officials to provide the required facilities and possibilities for hosting foreign tourists, saying that all the world nations are keen on visiting Iran.

An earthquake measuring 4.7 on the Richter scale jolted the southern parts of the city of Garmsar in Iran’s northern province of Semnan on Saturday.

Iran’s exports to Iraq will amount to $1.8 bln in 2007, an Iranian official said.

An earthquake measuring 4.4 on the Richter scale jolted Javad Abad in Tehran province on Saturday.